Writings

By Shannon Webb-Campbell When CBC radio host Stephanie Domet, an award-winning novelist and neighbor, put me on the VIP list for Between the Pages, an evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists on October 20 at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium … Continue reading →

By Kate Eichhorn Four years ago this September, my second collection of poetry, Fieldnotes, a forensic, was published. Like most collections of poetry, it was published by a small literary press in a modest print run of 500 copies. It … Continue reading →

By Erin Wunker I have found myself thinking about how, in the last few weeks, there have been more and more testimonies about abusive relationships between women and people – namely men – who have been in ostensible mentorship positions. … Continue reading →

By Erin Wunker Manifestos are often the avant-garde of a social, political, or artistic movement. Defined as a public explanation of past actions, and an announcement of the motives for forthcoming actions, manifestos intervene. In the sometimes-intersecting history of feminisms … Continue reading →

By Shannon Webb-Campbell BECAUSE we count BECAUSE the “W” in CWILA is always a contested space BECAUSE women, transgender, two-spirited and racially diverse writers deserve to be taught in every classroom, university and workshop BECAUSE we won’t go down the … Continue reading →

By Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand, translated by Bronwyn Haslam Lire l’essai originale française par Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand ici. fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely … Continue reading →

By Judith Scholes Since CWILA began producing an annual Count of book reviews in Canada, our major objective has been to quantify the existing but often silent gender inequities within Canadian critical culture. Now in its third year, the Count … Continue reading →

By Erin Wunker There is a certain exhaustion that comes with teaching within a field. As a scholar trained in the field of Canadian literature I periodically find myself tired of the eternal return to the question “what makes it … Continue reading →

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